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doc/glossary: improve "MDS" entry Reviewed-by: Anthony D'Atri <[email protected]>
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doc/glossary.rst

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Ceph-specific information about devices and its relationship
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:ref:`MDS<cephfs_add_remote_mds>`
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MDS
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The Ceph **M**\eta\ **D**\ata **S**\erver daemon. Also referred
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to as "ceph-mds". The Ceph metadata server daemon must be
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running in any Ceph cluster that runs the CephFS file system.
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The MDS stores all filesystem metadata.
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The MDS stores all filesystem metadata. :term:`Client`\s work
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together with either a single MDS or a group of MDSes to
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maintain a distributed metadata cache that is required by
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CephFS.
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See :ref:`Deploying Metadata Servers<cephfs_add_remote_mds>`.
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See the :ref:`ceph-mds man page<ceph_mds_man>`.
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The Ceph manager software, which collects all the state from

doc/man/8/ceph-mds.rst

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ceph-mds -- ceph metadata server daemon
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